Bride Behind the Mask

His wife was a real piece of work. She really was. He despises everything about her, everything from the heavily-powdered face, to the overly-red lips, to the shrilly voice she uses to yell the head off the servants. But this marriage was his mother’s last dying wish, and that meant he was stuck. Painfully stuck.
She never wanted to marry. Not just to him, but to anyone. She was her father’s only child and all she ever wanted was to stay by his side for as long as she could. But her stubborn old man had insisted on marrying her off to a Northern stranger to honour a family agreement. And so she devised a perfect plan.
Knowing just how much those Northerners hated court ladies from the South, Amelia turned herself into one—a much exaggerated version of one. She did everything she could think of to get on Drake’s nerves so he would annul their marriage and send her home. But his patience and tolerance with her was driving her mad…